Living Tableau: Memorial Day, 5/30/16

Torrington, Connecticut

One of the more remarkable floats at the Torrington parade.

Memorial Day Parade

Ansonia, Connecticut

5/29/16

Harp

Willimantic, Connecticut

Irish-themed bar on Church Street. Bright mid-day sun on a Spring day.

Fence, Pink Wall, and More

Danbury, Connecticut

Tall Stack

Willimantic, Connecticut

Fishing

Hartford, Connecticut

623

Hudson, New York

Two from Sunday

Amenia, New York

It's amazing how long the cold, slow Spring season has lasted. Most of the trees are still no where near in full leaf.

Cricket at Cromwell

Cromwell, Connecticut

Cromwell is a small, old, town not far south of the state capital, Hartford. I was exploring the area yesterday hoping to do some pictures in stormy light, though the conditions stayed more of a murky overcast. The faded flag painted on a concrete wall in the town athletic fields caught my eye, along with the large pipes laid out all around the field obviously awaiting a construction project. Then something caught my eye—unusual action by the young men on the baseball diamond. It was quite a double take before I figured out they were playing cricket.

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Shop Windows X Two: Number Six

Hudson, New York

I was going to end this mini-series at five, but then I encountered these two additions yesterday, so it continues.

Two Shop Windows, Number Five

Danbury, Connecticut

Two Shop Windows, Number Four

Torrington, Connecticut

Two Shop Windows: Number Three

Danbury, Connecticut

A couple more from today. This seems to be turning into a mini-series.

Two More Shop Windows

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Willimantic, Connecticut

Two Shop Windows

Willimantic, Connecticut

The small central CT city of Windham/Willimantic is struggling, while the town of New Milford in western CT is quite gentrified. The windows seem to show the contrast.

New Milford, Connecticut

Closed

Bristol, Connecticut

This was a thriving car dealership going back to 1967 (under the last management) but closed in 2004 and has been vacant ever since. It's a large piece of empty space just at the edge of the built-up part of this small city. A quick search turns up documents showing the place was closed largely because of a financing dispute with General Motors, and perhaps because GM wanted to shrink the number of its dealers in the Bristol area.

Flags

Ansonia, Connecticut

Flags flapping in a cold spring breeze.

(Blogger is still failing to upload picture files running under Safari, but worked—slowly—with Firefox.)

Blogger OOS

Test to see if a post will go up at all. Blogger is failing to accept picture uploads, so no real post until they fix it.

Spring X Two, IV

Kent, Connecticut

The second shot is from the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. You can see just a slice of the Hudson River way over on the right.

Hyde Park, New York

Spring X Two, III

Torrington, Connecticut

Woodbury, Connecticut

View Over the Hudson

Poughkeepsie, New York

The forecast for today called for interesting weather—that is, not clear sky and puffy white clouds—so I headed out for a loop that took me into New York State and along the Hudson River under rather threatening skies. Then, when I got to Poughkeepsie, I accidentally located, first a free municipal parking lot right over the river, then an elevator to The Walkway Over the Hudson.

I'd never gotten to this converted railroad bridge over the river before, but found it really fascinating. I'll want to look again in other weather conditions and seasons. More stuff from earlier in the day will show up here soon.

Spring X Two, II

Sandisfield, Massachusetts

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Spring X Two

Thomaston, Connecticut

After a mild winter, April and early May have been much colder than usual here in southern New England, with a result that Spring flowering is subdued, and almost stalled at an early stage. Temperatures have come up into the 70s F finally, so it will be interesting to see how the season progresses.

Spanish Dancer

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Faded Flag

Washington, Connecticut

PROM

Torrington, Connecticut

Getting to be that time of year, I guess.

Two Alleyways

New Haven, Connecticut

Willimantic, Connecticut

Also, another contribution to the Peace Project at The Public Eye Blog.

Trucks in the Rain

New Milford, Connecticut

Southbound, US Route 202.

Copake, New York

Southbound, US Route 22.

Let's Have a Look Then, Shall We?

Old Lyme, Connecticut

Rocky Neck State Park.  Long Island is out there, somewhere. Europe, too, a bit farther on.

CA$H

Waterville, Connecticut

DEMO

Ansonia, Connecticut

Closed Storefronts

Torrington, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut